Wagon-pole connection with sleigh-runners



A. SMITHSON.

WAGON POLE CONNECTION WITH SLEIGH RUNNERSL APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. 1920.

1,355,705.. Patented Oct. 12,1920.

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ARTHUR SMITHSON,

PATENT OFFICE.

WAGON-POLE CONNECTION WITH SLEIGH-RUNNERS.

' Application filed April 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ARTHUR SMirHsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glenwood, in the county of Pope and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful lVagon-Pole Connection with Sleigh- Runners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to runner attachments for wagons, an the main object is to provide new and improved device for connecting wagon poles and tongues of different sizes with the roller extending between the front ends of a pair of front runners. Another object is to show such device modified for connecting the short rear pole to the rear pair of runners. A third object is to show applied to one vehicle said two devices and also four of my improve brackets secured upon four runners for supfour skeins of the axles o a Said brackets involving howinvention, ave simultaneously herewith filed a separate application for patent for them; and likewise a separate application for the device connecting the rear end of the rear pole, since that pole connection is considerably different from that herein shown on the front roller.

In the accompanying drawing:-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon box mounted upon front and rear runners by in improved brackets, or any other suitable brackets, and its regular pole or tongue attached to th ole to the rear runners by my said two pole attaching device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the runners and poles in Fig. 1, with the wagon box and its reach and axles omitted. Fig. 3 is an enlarged top view of the front roller and pole in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a left 5 is a bottom hand end view of Fig. 3. Fig view of the metallic attaching means in Fig. 3, all wood work being omitte Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 6 designates the box, 7 the reach, 8 and 9 the axles, and 10 the axle skeins of a Said skeins are supported in brackets 11, secured at 12 to the front runners 13 and rear runners 14. The improvement of the brackets and their peculiar skein thimbles 15 will be found fully described and Specification of Letters Patent.

e front runners and its rear.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920. 1920. Serial No. 372,708.

claimed in my said other application for such brackets.

Rotatably mounted in the heads or front ends of each pair of runners is the usual rollers 16 and 16 In the reach 7 is secured a bolt 17 having a bushing 18 between its head and the reach to space the head away from the reach. Said bushing forms the pivot in a short slot 18 in the front end of a short pole 19 which assists in pulling and guiding the rear runners. Said pole 19 is secured by a bolt 20 in a channel-shaped iron 21 of a metallic coupling device 22, having also an inverted channel iron 23 secured by bolts 24 upon the rear roller 16 and connected by bracing webs 25 and 26 to the channel piece 21.

Bolted at 27 upon the front roller 16, is an inverted channel iron 28 (see near top of Figs. 2, 3 and 4). Only the end portions 29 and a short depressed portion 30 of the top of said channel iron 28 bear upon the wooden roller 16*, the rest of the top is raised from the wood so as to form two cavities 31, 32, for the heads of bolts 33 and The bolts 33 are movable in straight slots 35 in the top of the channel iron, and the bolts 34 are movable in segmental slots 36 in the channel iron and in straight slots 37 in D-shaped plates 38, on the top of which all ofsaid bolts have nuts 39.

Said plates 38 have their outer edges straight and bent upward and inward to form broad hooks 40. The wagon pole 41' is supposed to be removed from the hounds of the running gear of the wagon,where its broad rear end 42 is usually secured by a pivot bolt 43 slightly forward of the usual brace bar 44, and the main pole member 41 a depending rib 45.

Now, when the pole is removed from the Wagon and attached to the roller 16 of the front runner the said rib 45 is placed in the depression 30 as clearly shown in and as shown in Figs. 2 an or fan-shaped part 42 of the pole is placed upon the plates 38 and secured by the bolt 43 after the hooks 40 are brought to engage over the edges of the wood 42 by moving of the plates .38 on the bolts 33,34 and securing them by the nuts 39.

While the parts 28 and 38 may be cast from malleable ironor steel I prefer to drop- Fig. 4, d 3, the broad forge and form them out of sheet steel as the article so made is light, strong and neat looking. 7 v 7 What I claim is: l. The combination with a tongue member secured upon the roller and embracingthe sides thereof, two plates adjust ably secured by bolts upon the channel and h zontally through said hooks 2. The structure specified channel iron having in its underside cavities heads of longitudinal slot for one of the bolts in each 1n each plate,

g comprising a channel-shaped (1 said bolts, it valso having a I plate and a segmental slot for a second bolt and each plate having a longitudinal slot for the bolt in the segmeental slot.

arranged channel portions fitting one upon the roller and the other thelower portion of the pole.- 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. 7

ARTHUR SMITHSON. 

